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The American Society of Magical Negroes
Directed by
Kobi Libii
PG-13
2024
1h 45m
Comedy
,
Fantasy
3.7
25%
61%
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A young man is recruited into a secret society of magical black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier.
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Cast of The American Society of Magical Negroes
Justice Smith
Aren
David Alan Grier
Roger
An-Li Bogan
Lizzie
Drew Tarver
Jason Munt
Michaela Watkins
Masterson
Aisha Hinds
Gabbard
Tim Baltz
Officer Miller
Rupert Friend
Mick
Nicole Byer
DeDe
Zachary Barton
Collector #2
Anthony Coons
Collector #3
Robbie Troy
Collector #4
Gillian Vigman
Andrea
James E. Welsh
Patron (as James Welsh)
Mia Ford
Lacey
Eric Lutz
Brad
Kees DeVos
Ryan
Aaron Coleman
Barber
Chase Ryan Jeffery
Beau
Moe Irvin
James "Jim" Crampton (as Moe Irvin)
Ethan Herisse
Dashawn
Nozipho McLean
Lily
Isayas Theodros
Antoine (as Isayas J. Theodros)
Gregory James Cohan
Guard (as Greg Cohan)
Gregor Manns
"Big" Marcus Dunham
Toni M. Youngblood
Operator #1 (as Toni Youngblood)
Reginald James
Operator #2
Jeremiah Birkett
Jerel
Aaron Jennings
Kwame
Vinny DeGennaro
Bouncer
Christina Pascucci
Anchor
Bianca Crudo
Claire
Chris Attoh
Ghanaian Businessperson
Michael Andrew Baker
Farmer
Floyd Anthony Johns Jr.
Brutus
Girvan 'Swirv' Bramble
Kyle
Farelle Walker
Tonya
April McCullough
Brittany
Diana Cabuto
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The American Society of Magical Negroes Ratings & Reviews
Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Mark Kermode
It's not only utterly bereft of magic, but what it lacks it's that sense of anarchic strangeness or weirdness...
City AM
Victoria Luxford
This could have been a searing cultural lesson along the lines of 2018's Sorry To Bother You or Spike Lee's own media Satire Bamboozled. Instead, it pulls itself in too many directions and feels unsatisfying
AV Club
Mustafa Yasar II
Unfortunately, a fatal lack of consequence for the film's world or characters prevents it from ever deepening its initial premise, or unifying the sum of its disparate parts.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
Even if this misguided film was a twenty-minute short, it would still be twenty-minutes too long.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
"The American Society of Magical Negroes" starts and ends quite well. Almost everything in between, alas, proves uneven and inert in a way that dilutes its satirical punch...
Los Angeles Times
Carlos Aguilar
Like a comedy sketch that overstays its welcome, "Society" undermines both its caustic intent and its romantic-comedy subplot.
Slant Magazine
Justin Clark
There are versions of this premise relevant to a modern world, but the film's point of view on the state of race relations feels stuck somewhere around 1954.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"Society" too often panders to the very impulses it's trying to lampoon.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
Smith's nimble performance is such a pleasure to watch that it almost doesn't matter, but it's fair to say that this film could have gone even further with its bold scenario.
Consequence
Liz Shannon Miller
Beneath the layers of magical realism and dot-com satire, American Society feels personal and raw.
NPR
Aisha Harris
So many disparate ideas and tones are being mashed up here, and none of them gel.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Kobi Libii only dips his toe in the water of the film's thesis, and seems unwilling to dissect or interrogate it in any meaningful fashion.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Libii, who's also the screenwriter here, needs some storytelling magic.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jourdain Searles
Though it's clear that first-time director Libii was intending for the joke to be on white people, the Black characters are drawn with so much misery and self-loathing that the humor rarely lands.
IndieWire
Tomris Laffly
"The American Society of Magical Negroes" feels inexplicably watered-down(...), further saddled by an unnecessary late twist and a preachy tone that manages to say only the most obvious.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
You're never totally sure if "The American Society of Magical Negroes" wants to critique the anti-Black world it exists in or is simply content smiling in the face of the status quo.
Entertainment Weekly
Devan Coggan
American Society can't decide whether to go full biting satire or charming rom-com, and as a result, it fails to do either genre justice.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
"The American Society of Magical Negroes" is a deftly observant fantasy comedy that stays true to its own irreverence.
TheWrap
Ronda Racha Penrice
Unlike "American Fiction," "Magical Negroes" lacks broad appeal. That doesn't make it a film without merit, but it makes it harder to sell to a more mainstream Black audience.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A socially conscious romantic comedy, and if those two modes don't sound compatible, [writer/director] Libii does nothing to alter that impression.
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